Clarence Upson Young
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Clarence Upson Young was an American screenwriter active during Hollywood’s classic era, known for contributing to genre films including mystery and horror.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Clarence Upson Young canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T4148300 — resolving that mention is where its identity was fixed. The disambiguator weighed these candidate entities and picked the highlighted one (or “None”, minting a new entity). This is how homonymy is resolved: the same surface form can point to different entities.
NED1
Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Clarence Upson Young Context triple: [Night Monster, screenwriter, Clarence Upson Young]
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A.
Nelson Tift
Nelson Tift was a 19th-century American lawyer, politician, and entrepreneur best known as the founder and early developer of Albany, Georgia.
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B.
John Hessin Clarke
John Hessin Clarke was an American lawyer, newspaper editor, and associate justice of the U.S. Supreme Court who served on the Court from 1916 to 1922.
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C.
Milton Bennett Medary
Milton Bennett Medary was an American architect known for his influential early 20th-century designs and partnership in the prominent Philadelphia firm Zantzinger, Borie & Medary.
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D.
Clarence Rowland
Clarence Rowland was an American Major League Baseball manager best known for leading the Chicago White Sox to the 1917 World Series championship.
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E.
Sylvester Pendleton Clark
Sylvester Pendleton Clark was an individual significant enough in local history or public life that the town of Pendleton, New York, was named in his honor.
- F. None of above. chosen
- G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.
NED2
Entity disambiguation (via description)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Clarence Upson Young Target entity description: Clarence Upson Young was an American screenwriter active during Hollywood’s classic era, known for contributing to genre films including mystery and horror.
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A.
Nelson Tift
Nelson Tift was a 19th-century American lawyer, politician, and entrepreneur best known as the founder and early developer of Albany, Georgia.
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B.
John Hessin Clarke
John Hessin Clarke was an American lawyer, newspaper editor, and associate justice of the U.S. Supreme Court who served on the Court from 1916 to 1922.
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C.
Milton Bennett Medary
Milton Bennett Medary was an American architect known for his influential early 20th-century designs and partnership in the prominent Philadelphia firm Zantzinger, Borie & Medary.
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D.
Clarence Rowland
Clarence Rowland was an American Major League Baseball manager best known for leading the Chicago White Sox to the 1917 World Series championship.
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E.
Sylvester Pendleton Clark
Sylvester Pendleton Clark was an individual significant enough in local history or public life that the town of Pendleton, New York, was named in his honor.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (14)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
American screenwriter
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person ⓘ screenwriter ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| era | classical Hollywood cinema ⓘ |
| gender | male ⓘ |
| genre |
horror film
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mystery film ⓘ |
| industry |
Hollywood
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surface form:
Hollywood film industry
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| languageOfWorkOrName | English ⓘ |
| notableWork |
The Devil Doll
NERFINISHED
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The Devil-Doll NERFINISHED ⓘ The Devil-Doll (1936 film) NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| occupation | screenwriter ⓘ |
How these facts were elicited
The pipeline generated the facts above by prompting gpt-5.1 with this entity's name + description and the instruction below.
Instruction
You are a knowledge base construction expert. Given a subject entity and a description of it, return factual statements that you know for the subject as a JSON list of dictionaries(triples), where keys must be "subject", "predicate" and "object". The number of facts may be very high, between 25 to 50 or more, for very popular subjects. For less popular subjects, the number of facts can be very low, like 5 or 10. # Requirements - If you don't know the subject at all, return an empty list. - If the subject is not a named entity, return an empty list. - Include at least one triple where predicate is "instanceOf". - Do not get too wordy. - Separate several objects into multiple triples with one object.
Input
Subject: Clarence Upson Young Description of subject: Clarence Upson Young was an American screenwriter active during Hollywood’s classic era, known for contributing to genre films including mystery and horror.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.